题目内容
If you’ve been joining in chat room conversation, or trading e-mail with Web pals, you have become one of the millions who write in a special short form of English.
And you’ve got a sense of humor about short forms like SOHF（= sense of humor failure） to describe Internet new-comers who understand you. Across the globe, every night teenagers and their elders are “talking” online__ many of them all talking at the same time.
It’s fast: try talking to six people at once. It’s brief: three or four words per exchange. It takes wit （智慧）, and quick fingers.
Want to enter a conversation? Just type PMFJI（= pardon me for jumping in ）.
Interested in whom you’re talking to? A/S/L, the nearly universal request to know your pal’s age, sex and location. You may get 15/M/NY as a response form your pal.
If something makes you laugh, say you’re OTF（=on the floor）, or LOL（= laughing out loud）, or combine the two into ROTEL（= rolling on the floor laughing）.
And when it’s time to get back to work or go to bed, you type GTG（= got to go） or TTYL（= talk to you later）. People want to write as fast as possible, and they want to get their ideas across as quickly as they can. Capital letters are left in the dust, except when expressing strong feelings, as it takes more time to hold down the “shift” key and use capitals. Punctuation （标点） is going, too.
1. In order to talk to several people at the same time on the Internet,__________.
A. you have to speak fast and fluently
B. you should speak with wit and humor
C. one should pay much attention to the use of exact words
D. you have to express your ideas in a brief way
2. If you get 17/F/NY as an answer to you're a/S/L, it means __________.
A. you are talking to a girl who is 17 and lives in New York
B. the person who is talking to you is a 1.7-foot-tall New York girl
C. you are talking to 17 girls who are from New York
D. the person on the other end is 17 from New York and he is fine
3. To save time on the Internet, __________.
A. some people leave their letters in the dustbin
B. some people never use “shift” in their writing
C. people seldom use capital letters and punctuation
D. many people leave the capital or punctuation
DAC
Hey there,
So you’re about to spend four years of your life and tens of dollars of your parents’ money, and all you really know about college is that all of your friends are going. Do you ever stop to wonder why you’re going?
*Relax. You’re making the right decision. First of all, you’ll discover what interests you by taking courses in many subjects. For example, it’s hard to decide if you want to be a painter if you’ve never painted any pictures; once you’re in a drawing-room on campus, you’ll know one way or the other.
College is also a lot of fun—after you graduate, you’ll be working every weekday for 50 or so years.
And remember that college graduate earn about twice the income of those who never attended college.
*Finding the right college can be difficult. Fortunately, Johnson Review is here to help you every step of the way.
*Researching Schools. To us, the most important decision you’ll make is to choose the school that really fits you best — not the one that is the most competitive or has the best-equipped rooms.
*Applying to School. On JohnsonReview.com., you’ll find hundreds of actual college applications and links to many more.
*Raising Your Scores. American College Test is one of the most important parts of the admission course. It’s not the most important, though, and everyone needs to prepare for the best. But, if you can do better, find the right course for better scores.
*Paying for School. Most families need financial aid for the high cost of college. The problem is that financial aid seems difficult to get and many families get caught up in the price of college rather than learning the ways to get financial aid. If you really do your research, you’ll learn that you can afford to attend any college, no matter the cost.
For more information, call 600-3681 or visit JohnsonReview.com. Wherever you go, have a nice trip!
Johnson Smith
Founder and CEO
Johnson Review
【小题1】How many reasons for going to college does the author mention in the text?
| A．2 | B．4 | C．3 | D．5 |
| A．well-equipped | B．competitive | C．famous | D．suitable |
| A．To ask the family for help. |
| B．To get to know how to ask for financial aid. |
| C．To do research on the price of college |
| D．To make a study of financial courses. |
| A．To make Johnson Review popular. |
| B．To help readers find the right college. |
| C．To suggest ways to prepare for college learning. |
| D．To introduce college life. |
请仔细阅读下列文章，并根据所读内容在文章后的表格中的空格内填入一个最恰当的单词。
注意：请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上，每空只填一个单词。
When difficult people expresses themselves orally, they generally want at least two things: they’ve been heard and they’ve been understood. As a good communicator should be a good listener, five steps are advocated toward good listening.
The first step is cooperating. How does a difficult person know that you’re listening and understanding? In fact, it’s through the way you look and sound while he is talking. You may help him to fully express his thoughts and feelings. You do this by nodding your head in agreement, making certain sounds of understanding.
When the person begins to repeat what’s been said, it’s a signal of step two: turning back. It means that you repeat back some words he is using, sending a clear signal that you’ve listening carefully and that you think what he is saying is important.
Having heard what he has to say, the next step is clarifying. At this point, you start to gather information about what is being communicated. Ask same open-ended questions, which will allow you to figure out what intention he is hoping to satisfy.
The fourth step is to summarize what you’ve heard. This allows you to make sure that both you and the difficult person the same page. When you do this, two things happen. First, if you’ve missed something, he can fill in the details. Second you’ve shown that you’re making an effort to understand completely. This increases possibility of gaining cooperation from him.
Having listened carefully, you’ve now arrived at the point of confirming with the person that he feels satisfied that his thoughts have been fully voiced. Ask if he feels understood.
Then enough sincere listening, questioning, and remembering are brought together, understanding is usually achieved and a difficult person becomes less difficult and more cooperative.
| 【小题1】 ▲ | Listen to understand |
| Reason | Difficult people hope they have been heard and【小题2】 ▲ when they express themselves. |
| 【小题3】 ▲ towards listening | ◆【小题4】 ▲ in agreement and make some sounds of understanding while a difficult person is speaking. ◆Repeat some 【小题5】 ▲ that you have heard. ◆Collect information about the person’s expressions and find his 【小题6】 ▲ . ◆Give a 【小题7】 ▲ of what the person has said. ◆Confirm that the person gains 【小题8】 ▲ from speaking his thoughts. |
| Result | A difficult person will be 【小题9】▲ to cooperate with if understanding is achieved. |
| 【小题10】 ▲ | You may unlock the doors to difficult people’s minds after you listen and understand. |
请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空格1个单词。
Health researchers have noticed that some groups of people are more consistently healthy than others, and wondered… Is it race? Income? Where you live? In the United States, these disagreements in health outcomes have been the focus of intense research for the past several decades.
Harvard University health policy researcher Ellen Meara says scholars have found some clues as to why some groups of people have more or less disease than others. She says one important factor in people’s health is the amount of education they have.
In her most recent paper, Meara looked at data from the United States census. Meara and her colleagues examined data from several decades.
“We looked at life expectancy（预测寿命）at age 25,” Meara says.
“How many additional years can you expect to live if you arrive at age 25 and your education has stopped at high school, or sooner? Versus how many years, can you expect to live if you’ve reached aged 25 and you’ve gone on to at least some college…”
Meara says they found that in 1990, a 25-year-old who only had some secondary school could expect to live for a total of 75 years. In 2000, a 25 year old with some secondary education could also expect to live to the age of 75.
In contrast, for a better educated 25-year-old, they could expect to live to the age of 80 in 1990. Someone with a similar education level in the year 2000, could expect to live to be more than 81 years, 81.6 years to be exact .
Meara says, not only do better-educated people live longer to begin with, but in the past ten years, more educated people has made gains in the length of their lives. Meanwhile, the life expectancy hasn’t changed for less educated people.
Some of these gains can be explained. Meara says researchers know that people who are more educated are more likely to quit smoking cigarettes, or not start at all, compared to people with less education.
“I think it’s a reminder not to be satisfactory,” Meara says. “Just because a population overall appears to be getting healthier, it doesn’t always mean that those advantages and successes that many people have enjoyed really extend into all parts of the population. And I think that's something to really pay attention to regardless of whether you live in the US or elsewhere.”
Meara points out that education can often determine income - people with more education frequently make more money. This makes them aware of health care, and purchase other resources and services that can keep them healthier. But the data on income do NOT show that people who make more money are automatically healthier.
| Title | The Amount of __71_____Contributes to People’s Health | |||
| Comparisons | The less educated people | The ____72____ educated people | ||
| In 1990 | They could live for 75 years | They could live to the age of 80 | ||
| In 2000 | Their life expectancy was the same as in 1990. | They could live to the age of 81.6 _____73____. | ||
| ___74___ of the research | In the past ____75___ | Their life expectancy remained ____76_____. | They’ve made gains in the length of their lives, partly ___77____ to their quitting smoking. | |
| People are getting healthier, but it doesn’t mean that the advantages and successes extend into all parts of the population | ||||
| Income____78_____ on education. | People with more education make more money | |||
| Getting more money helps to increase their ____79____ of health care, which can keep them healthier. | ||||
| ______80_____ | Education is the key to better health. | |||
根据短文的内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
If you think you’ve gained too much weight or are too skinny, you can talk to a doctor. Your doctor will tell you 1. ______________.
If it is concerned about your height, weight, or BMI (体重指数), your doctor may ask questions 2. ______________. Your doctor may also ask about your family background to find out if you’ve received something from your parents that might make you taller, shorter, or a late bloomer (someone who develops later than other people of the same age). The doctor can then put all the information together to decide 3. _____________.
If your weight isn’t in a healthy range, you will probably get specific diet and exercise recommendations based on your individual needs. Following a doctor’s or dietitian’s plan designed especially for you will work much better than following fad (时尚) diets. For teens, fad diets or starvation plans can actually slow down growth, and the weight loss usually doesn’t last.
What 4. ______________? Most teens who weigh less than other teens of their age are just fine. They may be going through puberty on a different schedule than kids of the same age, and their bodies may be growing and changing at a different rate. Most underweight teens catch up in weight as they finish puberty during their later teen years so there’s rarely a need to try to gain weight.
In a few cases, teenagers can be underweight because of a health problem that needs treatment. If you feel tired or ill a lot, or 5. ____________, or other problems that have lasted for more than a week or two, be sure to let your parents or your doctor know.
| A．whether you might have a weight or growth problem. |
| B．if you have symptoms like a cough, stomachache |
| C．about your health, physical activity, and eating habits |
| D．if you’re worried about being too skinny |
F. whether you’re growing normally
G. about your dieting